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For 5 years of my life, somewhere in the murky waters of my late teens and early 20’s, my life was like a slow-motion race to the bottom between eating a terrible diet, smoking cigarettes, partying too hard, driving too fast, staying up until dawn, mixing with people who weren’t resourceful to my cause, and harboring complete apathy towards anything beyond tomorrow.

I was going to live forever, so anything that involved responsibility or serious planning could wait until later.

Most people like to live in a safe space of their own design. They don’t want to do anything that will test their abilities, confront ideologies that challenge their worldview, nor will they do anything that others might see as odd or socially unacceptable.

Sitting in front of a word processor, while the cursor blinks hypnotically at the top of a blank page, is a ritual of writing. Blogger’s block, as I call it, is an unavoidable part of the writing experience. There are times where the words simply don’t flow.

If you’re a writer of any description, I guarantee that your creative fountain has clogged at some point. It happens to the best of us.

In this post, I will give you 7 methods that I personally use to both avoid and push through blogger’s block.

When I was 16 and taking a gap year because I was sick of the banality of academia, and nowhere near ready mentally to take on a degree course, I took whatever job I could find.

That job was driving forklifts, lugging bags of concrete and cutting timber to size for builders. Everyone at my work hated their job. It was a place that “dreams go to die”, as I was advised by a colleague when I first started working there. I was apparently making a huge mistake.

“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.” – Plutarch

Mentors are a dime a dozen. Just go to YouTube or WordPress and type in “life coach”, “inspiration”, or “philosophy”. You will find a plethora of people who are more than happy to tell you exactly what you should do to be more successful, happier, or more popular.

A topic that is flooding news sites at the moment is how hard it is to be a member of the Millennials, or Generation Y. Putting the inflammatory comments about entitlement from the Boomers aside, the general victim mentality of the Y’s towards those who came before is bewildering.

As a member of the younger generation, here is my assessment of how to make it in the new world.

You see, I had figured out or been told (I can’t remember which) that Santa wasn’t real, and I wanted to tell all of the other kids that they were believing fantasy. To my 6-year-old reason, I was doing everyone a favour by sharing the truth with them.